Standardizing the approach to managing vulnerabilities
With more than 17,000 cybersecurity vulnerabilities disclosed within the past year, according to this software company, organizations throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) are often forced to rely on a patchwork of security patches, and many process operators operate with relatively scarce internal IT resources. This company recommends a standardized, three-pronged approach to reducing risk and managing chemical process plant vulnerabilities, with the goal of determining risk criticality using vulnerability intelligence, prioritizing remediation options for known vulnerabilities (based on criticality), and applying patches to mitigate risk with an emphasis on testing in controlled environments. The company’s Vulnerability and Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions help process operators to evaluate and procure the right software and cloud services to reduce compliance and security risk. — Flexera Software, Itasca, Ill.